You could try make your wakeup schedule more dense and for this laptop
remove all blackout periods.

Like consider waking up every 15 minutes for the hours that the laptop is
most probable to appear.




On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 22:58, Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> My company has a laptop that spends most of its time on a shelf, not in
> use. So I'm constantly seeing a daily BackupPC alert in my email that
> the machine hasn't been backed up recently.
>
> How do others deal with this situation, with machines that are rarely
> connected to the LAN for backup?
>
> An additional problem is that the machine might only be connected for a
> short period, so the server might miss that window and fail to back it
> in the short period it's connected, as it's busy with other backups.
>
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